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Ivan Gašparovič won the presidency election and he is the president of the Sloak republic.There is for you his biography.
Ivan Gašparovič was born in Poltár, near Lučenec and Banská Bystrica in present day south-central Slovakia, that time in the first Slovak Republic. His father, Vladimír Gašparović, immigrated from Croatia to Slovakia at the end of World War I and was a teacher at a (secondary school) in Bratislava,

Ivan Gašparovič studied at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava from 1959 to 1964. He worked in the District Prosecutor's Office of the district of Martin (1965-66), then became a Prosecutor at the Municipal Prosecutor's Office of Bratislava (1966-68). In 1968 he joined the Communist Party of Slovakia supposedly to support Alexander Dubček's reforms, but he was expelled from the party after the Warsaw Pact invasion in Czechoslovakia in August 1968.

However, in spite of the expulsion Gašparovič was able to continue his legal career and from 1968 to July 1990 he was a teacher at the Department of Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminological Practice at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In February 1990 he became the prorector (deputy vice-chancellor) of Comenius University.

After the Velvet Revolution and the subsequent fall of the Communist regime, Gašparovič was chosen by the newly elected democratic president Václav Havel to become the country's federal prosecutor-general. After March 1992, he was briefly the Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Czechoslovakia, before the federal Czechoslovakia split into two independent states in January 1993.